Individual Notes
Note for: George Allen Knox, 1840 - 1905
Index
Event: Type: Military
Place: Missouri
Event: Oklahoma
Type: Migration
Date: 1893
Burial: Place: Oklahoma, Garfield, Carrier
Individual Note: [Master.FTW]
Participated in the 1893 Oklahoma Land Run
Confederate Army Soldier, served under General Sterling Pri ce in Missouri. Had 2 brothers who were Confederate Soldie rs killed in the Battle of Pea Ridge in Arkansas.
Major General Sterling Price
Sterling Price was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia o n September 20, 1809. He briefly attended Hampden-Sidney Co llege and studied law before moving with his parents to Mis souri in 1831. In Missouri, he became a merchant and tobacc o planter in Chariton County. Being successful in busines s and popular with the citizens, Price began a career in po litics.
Sterling Price was elected to the State House of Representa tives in 1840 and was chosen Speaker. In 1842, he was re-el ected to both positions. Being elected to the United Stat e Congress in 1844, he resigned his seat when the Mexican W ar broke out. President Polk commissioned Price to raise an d command a regiment. This Missouri Volunteer Regiment wa s assigned to occupation duty in New Mexico. In 1847, Pric e suppressed an uprising against American rule. The followi ng year he conducted a campaign into Mexico that resulted i n the capture of Chihuahua and his promotion to the breve t rank of brigadier-general. Price is shown above in his Me xican War uniform. According to a newspaper article in Oct ober 1848, Price was hailed as a hero "beloved by his soldi ers, respected by his fellow citizens, and with laurels enc ircled around his brow that will perpetually bloom in the a ffections of his countrymen." In 1852, Price campaigned fo r governor as an anti-Benton Democrat. He was unable to wid ely campaign for this office because he choose to be with h is wife and eldest son when they were stricken with illness . Despite this, Price was still elected and served as Misso uri's Governor from 1853 to 1857. Price served as the stat e bank commissioner after his term as governor. During th e secession crisis of 1860-61, Price was an Conditional Uni onist. He presided over the Missouri State Convention whic h denounced the use of force to preserve the Union. After F ederal acts of atrocities, Price joined the forces of the s ecessionist Governor Claiborne F. Jackson and was appointe d commander of the Missouri State Guard <../msg.htm> with t he rank of major-general. On August 10, 1861, Price and th e seven thousand members of the Missouri State Guard joine d forces with Brigadier General Ben McCulloch of the Confed erate Army and defeated Gen. Lyon at the Battle of Oak Hill s
or as the Yanks call it, Wilson's Creek. W ithout cooperation of the Confederates, Price then moved th e Missouri State Guard northward and beseiged Lexington , Missouri which had been occupied by Federal tr oops. On September 20, Lexington along with 3,000 prisoners , 5 pieces of artillery, over 3,000 stands of arms, 750 hor ses and about $100,000 worth of commissary stores were surr endered to Price. After Missouri's secession from the Unit ed States and her formal admittance to the Confederate Stat es, Price resigned from the Missouri State Guard and entere d the Confederate Army as a general. Price and his Missouri ans were sent east of the Mississippi River to reinforce Ge neral Albert Sidney Johnston. Arriving too late to particip ate in the Battle of Shiloh, they were part of Genereal P . G. T. Beauregard's defense of Corinth, Mississippi (Apri l 6-7). Price continued to fight Union forces in Mississipp i. On September 19, 1862, Price fought William S. Rosecran s at Iuka and then took part of Gen. Van Dorn's attempt t o retake Corinth. Price resented being east of the Mississ ippi and persistently requested transfer of his troops bac k to the Trans-Mississippi. President Jefferson Davis final ly agreed that he could return but his troops - those brav e Missourians who were unmatched in battle - were needed fo r the defense of Vicksburg. After returning to Arkansas, Pr ice commanded a division in Lt. Gen. Holmes' assault on Hel ena, Arkansas on July 4, 1863. When Holmes' became ill an d took a leave of absence, Price became the commander of al l Confederate forces in Arkansas. In 1864, after fighting G en. Steele in Arkansas, Price was authorized to return to M issouri in an effort to relieve the pressure on Atlanta, Ge orgia. With 12,000 mounted infantry, many unarmed, he enter ed Missouri in September 1864 with the hope of delivering M issouri from Yankee thraldom. Price's Raid was unsuccessfu l in the face of the damn Yankees who had occupied Missour i for three years and enjoyed the luxury of central headqua rter's. In 1865, Price went to Mexico where he was the lea der of a colony of Confederate exiles at Carlota in the sta te of Vera Cruz. The colony was ruined by guerrilla attacks , crop failure, and illness. Price returned to St. Louis i n 1867 and established a commission business. Sterling Pric e died in St. Louis on September 29, 1867. Sources: Darrel l L. Maples ed., "Major General Sterling Price," The Govern or's Guard (Jefferson City, MO: M. M. Parsons Camp #718), S eptember 1995; Jerena East Giffen. First Ladies of Missouri . Jefferson City, MO: Giffen Enterprises, 1996; Perry S. Ra der. The Civil Government of the United States and the Stat e of Missouri and the History of Missouri, Jefferson City , MO: The Hugh Stephens Printing Company, 1904.
Listed in the Index to 1870 Federal Census in Howard Count y Missouri.
Knox, George, Pg 236a.
Listed in Index to 1880 Federal Census in Howard County Mis souri.
Knox, George, Pg 99-20